EP1908162A1

EP1908162A1 - Brushless electric motor

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Publication number: EP1908162A1
Application number: EP06762195A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Christian Rudel; Joerg Hornberger; Michael Schaeuble
Original assignee: Ebm Papst St Georgen GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Ebm Papst St Georgen GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2005-07-26
Filing date: 2006-06-27
Publication date: 2008-04-09
Anticipated expiration: 2026-06-27
Also published as: US7893579B2; WO2007012370A8; EP1908162B1; US20080174212A1; WO2007012370A1

Abstract

An electric motor has a stator (224) with a bearing tube (238) of a magnetically transparent material, also a rotor (222) with a rotor shaft (234), which is at least partially mounted in the bearing tube (238), and a magnet ring (250), which is arranged in a rotationally fixed manner on the rotor shaft (234) within the bearing tube (238). To generate rotor position signals in accordance with the rotational position of the magnet ring (250), two magnetic field-dependent analog sensors (248', 248'') are arranged with an angular spacing (PHI) on a printed circuit board (246) outside the bearing tube (238). For processing these rotor position signals to form a signal which indicates the absolute rotational position of the rotor (222), a corresponding device (150) is provided, serving for controlling the motor.

Description

BRUSHLESS ELECTRIC MOTOR

The invention relates to an electric motor for detecting a rotor position and in particular the absolute value of a rotor position.

WO 2004/059830 A2 discloses a rotor position sensor arrangement for an electric motor with a multi-pole sensor magnet, in which a rotor position signal is converted into a digital value with a resolution of 2 bits. This digital value makes it possible, even within the angular range of a sensor pole, e.g. in the following Fig. 5 within the area 550 to obtain information from the rotor position signal, so that an absolute value for the rotor position can be generated.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a novel arrangement for detecting rotor position in an electric motor.

According to a first aspect of the invention, this object is achieved by an electric motor according to claim 1. This electric motor has a stator, a rotor with a rotor shaft and a rotor magnet, a magnet ring arranged non-rotatably on the shaft and at least one rotor position sensor. The rotor magnet has n pole pairs. The magnetic ring is at least partially disposed between the rotor shaft and the at least one rotor position sensor, and it is magnetized such that it has a maximum of n pole pairs and results in a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux profile at its periphery. The at least one rotor position sensor is used to generate an analog signal, which maps a property of the magnetic flux and is suitable for determining an absolute value of the rotor position. This gives an electric motor with a rotor position arrangement, which makes it possible to determine the absolute value of the rotor position of the motor at any time.

According to a further aspect, this object is achieved by an electric motor according to claim 13. This electric motor has a stator with a bearing tube, a rotor with a rotor shaft, a magnet ring, and at least one rotor position sensor. The bearing tube is formed of a magnetically transparent material, for. B. die-cast aluminum. The rotor shaft is at least partially disposed in the bearing tube. The magnetic ring is rotatably mounted on the shaft and also at least partially disposed within the bearing tube. The at least one rotor position sensor is arranged outside the bearing tube and serves to generate a rotor position signal as a function of the rotational position of the magnetic ring. This gives a motor with a rotor position arrangement, which makes it possible to determine the absolute value of the rotor position of the motor at any time.

Further details and advantageous developments of the invention will become apparent from the hereinafter described and illustrated in the drawings, in no way as a limitation of the invention to be understood embodiments. It shows:

1 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of an ECM with a rotor position sensor assembly;

2 is an enlarged longitudinal section through an exemplary external rotor motor, which is provided with a rotor position sensor arrangement according to the invention,

3 shows a section along the line I - I in Fig. 2 on an enlarged scale,

4 shows a perspective view of a first embodiment of the two-pole sensor magnet from FIGS. 2 and 3, Fig. 5 is a schematic representation of the magnetic field of a four-pole

Sensor magnet according to a second embodiment of the invention,

6 is a plan view of a preferred sensor ring magnet assembly,

7 shows a section through the sensor magnet ring arrangement along the line VII-VII of FIG. 6,

8 is an enlarged longitudinal section through an exemplary internal rotor motor, which is provided with a rotor position sensor arrangement according to the invention, and

Fig. 9 is a section along the line Il - Il of Fig. 8 in an enlarged scale.

In the following description, the terms left, right, up and down refer to the respective drawing figure, and may vary from one drawing figure to the next, depending on a particular orientation (portrait or landscape). Identical or equivalent parts are denoted by the same reference numerals in the various figures and usually described only once.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram which illustrates the basic mode of operation of a device 100 for operating an ECM 120 with a

Rotor position sensor assembly according to the present invention illustrated. The rotor position sensor arrangement is designed on the one hand for generating rotor position signals and on the other hand for determining absolute values for the rotor position of the ECM 120 from the generated rotor position signals.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus 100 includes an ECM 120 having a rotor 126 having a sensor magnet 128 (sensor magnet) and a stator 124 having at least one stator strand. The ECM 120 is associated with an output stage 122 (power stage) for influencing the motor current in the at least one stator strand of the stator 124. The device 100 comprises a controller 130 (controller), which is expediently designed as a microcontroller, and which is connected to the ECM 120. The controller 130 comprises a commutation controller 160 (COMMUT) and is connected on the input side to at least one rotor position sensor 140 (rotor position sensor) which is assigned to the ECM 120. The commutation controller 160 generates commutation signals for the output stage 122 of the ECM 120 in response to rotor position signals provided by the rotor position sensor 140.

The output stage 122 comprises a device 150 for determining the rotor position (analyzer) with a normalizing unit 156, an averaging unit 154 (averaging) and a processing unit 152 (processing). The device 150, together with the rotor position sensor 140, forms a rotor position sensor arrangement according to the invention for the sensor magnet 128.

The rotor position sensor 140 is preferably an analog rotor position sensor. However, the invention is not limited to a particular rotor position sensor type, but various types of rotor position sensors can be used. For example, analog Hall sensors, such as e.g. A1321 analog Hall sensors, AMR Hall sensors or GMR (Giant Magneto Resistor) sensors can be used as rotor position sensors. Also, programmable sensors, e.g. of the type Sentron 2SA-10.

During operation of the device 100, an operating voltage is supplied to the at least one stator strand of the stator 124 of the ECM 120. In this case, the currents flowing through the at least one stator strand are controlled by the commutation signals provided by the commutation controller 160 of the output stage 122 in such a way that the rotor 126 rotates at a specific rotational speed ω.

The rotation of the rotor 126 causes the sensor magnet 128 to rotate at the same speed ω at which the rotor 126 rotates, producing rotor position signals from the rotor position sensor 140. These are supplied to the device 150, which serves at any time from the current Rotor position signal to determine an absolute value for the rotational position of the rotor 126.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the rotor position absolute values of the rotor 126 are used by the commutation controller 160 in the controller 130 in generating suitable commutation signals to provide an electromagnetic interaction between the at least one required for rotation of the rotor 126 at the determined speed Strand of the stator 124 and the rotor 126 to effect.

The operation of the apparatus 100 for determining absolute values for the rotor position of the rotor 126 will be described further below with reference to FIGS. 2 to 9.

FIG. 2 shows an enlarged longitudinal section through an external rotor motor 200 which serves to drive an external component (not shown), for example a fan wheel. As can be seen from FIG. 2, the motor 200 is arranged in a housing 202, which has a substantially cylindrical housing part 204, at the upper end of which a fastening flange 206 is fastened by at least one screw 205.

The motor 200 has an outer rotor 222 with a rotor bell 224, which has on its inside a radially magnetized rotor magnet 228. The rotor magnet 228 has n pole pairs, where n = 1, 2,.

The rotor bell 224 is provided with a bottom 230 in which a lower shaft end 232 of a rotor shaft 234 is fixed, whose upper, free shaft end is denoted by 235. With the upper, free shaft end 235, the external component can be driven. Therefore, the upper free shaft end 235 will also be referred to hereinafter as the "drive end" of the shaft 234. The rotor bell 224 and the bottom 230 are preferably formed integrally with the lower shaft end 232 being attachable to the bottom 230 by zamak spraying. The lower shaft end 232 can also be used for driving. For this purpose, in the housing part 204 in the region of the lower shaft end 232 a - not shown - opening attached. An advantage of the sensor arrangement according to the invention is that, regardless of the type of motor, none of the shaft ends is occupied by the sensor arrangement.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, the rotor shaft 234 is almost complete, i. with the exception of the drive end 235, mounted in a magnetically permeable bearing tube 238, which is preferably formed integrally with the mounting flange 206. For the radial support of the shaft 234, an upper roller bearing 236 arranged on the A side of the motor 200 and a lower roller bearing 237 arranged on the B side of the motor 200 serve. The upper roller bearing 236 is press-fitted into a recess 292 in the mounting flange 206 and is held there by a retaining ring 293, which is covered by a sealing ring 295. The lower roller bearing 237 is mounted in a recess 294 at the lower end of the bearing tube 238 by pressing, and its outer ring abuts against the upper end 240 (in Fig. 2) against a disposed in the bearing tube 238 compression spring 242.

On the outside of the bearing tube 238 of the inner stator 244 of the motor 200 is attached. The inner stator 244 comprises a stator support 282 with a stator lamination 284 and a stator winding 286. At the upper end of the Statorträgers 282 a circuit board 246 is arranged, which is fastened via a screw 299 to the stator support 282 and serves to receive the engine electronics.

On the printed circuit board 246 there is shown a terminal connection 272 which serves to electrically connect the motor electronics via flexible individual lines 273 ', 273 ", 273" and 273 "' which are bundled in a line 274. The line 274 is discharged via a seal 276 guided to the housing part 204.

On the circuit board 246, and thus in the area outside the bearing tube 238, at least one rotor position sensor 248 is arranged. It is used to generate rotor position signals as a function of the rotational position of a magnetic ring 250, which is non-rotatably mounted on the rotor shaft 234 and preferably not detachably attached thereto. According to FIG. 2, the magnetic ring 250 is arranged in the axial direction of the rotor shaft 234 substantially at the same height as the rotor position sensor 248. The magnetic ring 250 is spaced from the rotor magnet 228 in the axial direction of the shaft 234 in order to prevent the rotor position sensor 248 from being influenced by the stray field of the rotor magnet 228 during the generation of the rotor position signals. In this case, the magnetic ring 250 and the rotor magnet 228 are preferably arranged relative to one another such that each pole transition of the magnetic ring 250 corresponds to a pole transition of the rotor magnet 228.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the magnetic ring 250 is magnetized such that it has a maximum of n pole pairs, where n is the number of pole pairs of the rotor magnet 228 as described above. Here, the magnetic ring 250 is preferably magnetized in a pole-oriented manner, i. diametrically or sinusoidally, so that there is a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux at its outer periphery.

The number and arrangement of the or the rotor position sensors 248 is matched to the number and magnetization of the pole pairs of the magnetic ring 250 to ensure the uniqueness of the rotor position signals for controlling the energization of the stator winding 286. For example, when using two analog Hall sensors they are preferably arranged at a distance of 90 ° el. To each other. In the event that the magnetic ring 250 in this case has only one pole pair, the Hall sensors must thus at a distance of 90 ° mech. be arranged to each other. In the case of a magnetic ring 250 with two pole pairs, a distance of 45 ° mech., Etc. results for the Hall sensors. The distance between the rotor position sensor 248 and the magnetic ring 250 can exceed more than a certain extent as a function of the magnetization of the magnetic ring 250 over a relatively large air gap 10 mm.

As can be seen from FIG. 2, the rotor magnet 228 terminates at its top and bottom sides with the upper or lower sides of the stator winding 286. However, this can act on the at least one rotor position sensor 248, the stray field of the rotor magnet 228 and thus distort the rotor position signal. Around Alternatively, to prevent the at least one rotor position sensor 248 from being influenced by the stray field of the rotor magnet 228 during rotor position signal generation, the rotor magnet 228 may alternatively be shortened in height such that its top and bottom sides coincide with the top and bottom sides of the laminated stator core 284 to lock.

The bearing tube 238 must be configured to allow the measurement of the magnetic field generated by the sensor magnet 250 at the location of the rotor position sensor 248 outside of the bearing tube. For this purpose, it is preferably formed at least in the region between the rotor position sensor 248 and the sensor magnet 250 of a magnetically permeable material.

operation

In operation of the external rotor motor 200, a supply voltage for energizing the stator winding 286 to an output stage associated with the motor 200, e.g. the output stage 122 of Fig. 1, applied. The supply voltage is preferably a substantially constant DC voltage generated by a power supply or battery and converted into rotations of the outer rotor 222, and thus the rotor shaft 234 and the magnet ring 250, by the electromagnetic interaction between the stator winding 286 and the rotor magnet 228 becomes.

Upon rotation of the magnet ring 250, the magnetic field acting on the rotor position sensor 248 continuously changes as a function of the magnetic flux profile on the outer circumference of the magnet ring 250, so that the rotor position sensor 248 generates sinusoidal or cosinusoidal rotor position signals. Absolute values for the rotor position of the outer rotor 222 are determined according to the invention from these rotor position signals.

To determine the absolute values, the rotor position signals are preferably normalized periodically or by period average values, so that deviations of the rotor position signals from corresponding nominal values do not lead to errors in the calculation of the rotor position angle. This standardization step is done by a suitable normalization unit, for example the normalization unit 156 from FIG. 1. The normalized rotor position signals are averaged by averaging unit, eg, the averaging unit 154 of FIG. 1, to increase the measurement accuracy and to improve the quality of the resulting signals. The resulting signals are converted by a processing unit, eg processing unit 152 of FIG. 1, into absolute values for the rotor position angle and z. B. converted to the rotor position of the outer rotor 222. Suitable processing methods for the rotor position signals are described for example in WO 2004/059830 A2 and will not be explained in detail here.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the absolute values for the rotor position of the outer rotor 222 are used to generate commutation signals, e.g. by the commutation controller 160 of the controller 130 of FIG. 1. The commutation signals serve to control the currents flowing through the stator winding 286. Advantageously, no initialization phase is required in which the rotor 222 is rotated to a defined initial state to associate an initial rotor position with an absolute electrical angle of the rotor magnet 228 required for commutation. Rather, the absolute value of the rotor position is known at any time, so that the absolute electrical angle of the rotor magnet 228, which is necessary for commutation, is always known. Thus, it is possible to dispense with the initialization phase since the absolute values are used to generate the commutation signals.

Fig. 3 shows a section through a preferred embodiment of the external rotor motor 200 with a two-pole magnetic ring 250 along the line I - I of FIG. 2 in an enlarged scale. The number n of the pole pairs of the magnet ring 250 in FIG. 3 is n = 1. The two-pole magnetic ring 250 is, as described in FIG. 2, rotationally fixed on the rotor shaft 234 and at least partially disposed within the bearing tube 238.

As clearly shown in FIG. 3, the printed circuit board 246 is fastened to the non-visible stator support 282 by means of three screws 299 ', 299 ", 299'", which are passed through corresponding holes 310 ', 310 ", 310". The on top of the circuit board (see. Fig. 2) arranged engine electronics includes, for example, the connection connection 272 and schematically illustrated power MOSFETs 320 ', 320 ", 320'".

Two Hall sensors 248 ', 248 ", for example SMD analog Hall sensors, are arranged at an angle PHI to one another on the upper side of the printed circuit board 246. Since the magnetic ring 250 is bipolar as shown in Fig. 3, this angle PHI is 90 ° el as described above. , so that the two Hall sensors are arranged at a distance of 90 ° mech.

4 shows a perspective view of an exemplary magnetic ring 400, which according to a first embodiment of the invention is suitable for realizing the magnetic ring 250 of FIGS. 2 and 3.

As can be seen from Fig. 4, the magnetic ring 400 has a substantially cylindrical shape and is diametrically magnetized, i. the magnetic ring 400 has a magnetic pole pair or two magnetic poles, a north pole 410 (N) and a south pole 420 (S). The magnetic flux path between the south pole 420 and the north pole 410 is represented by magnetic field lines 430 ', 430 ", 430'", which serve to illustrate a diametral magnetization.

It should be noted, however, that the north pole 410 and the south pole 420 of the magnet ring 400 essentially form a spherical magnetic field. This results in the outer circumference of the magnetic ring 400, a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux profile. Since the orientation of the magnetic field on the outer circumference of the magnetic ring 400 at each magnetic pole in each case allows a clear inference to the respective rotor position, when using the magnet ring 400 as a sensor magnet, the generation of suitable rotor position signals by the respectively used rotor position sensors, eg the rotor position sensors 248 ', 248 3, preferably on the orientation or direction of the magnetic field, in which case the distance between the rotor position sensors 248 ', 248 "and the magnet ring 400 must be suitably selected. 5 shows a schematic representation of the magnetic field of a magnetic ring 500, which according to a preferred embodiment is suitable for the realization of the magnetic ring 250 of FIGS. 2 and 3.

The magnetic ring 500 is four-pole and shown in plan view. It has two magnetic pole pairs, namely two north poles 510, 520 (N) and two south poles 530, 540 (S). Magnetic ring 500 is magnetized in a sinusoidal manner in accordance with the invention so that a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux profile results on the outer circumference of magnetic ring 500. The magnetic flux profile between the individual magnetic poles of the magnet ring 500 is indicated by corresponding magnetic field lines. For example, the magnetic flux profile between the south pole 540 and the north pole 520 is represented by magnetic field lines 550. Relative to the dial of a clock, the north pole 510 has its maximum in the 12 o'clock position, the south pole 540 in the 3 o'clock position, etc.

When magnet ring 500 is used as a sensor magnet, the generation of suitable rotor position signals by the respectively used rotor position sensors, e.g. 3, preferably based on the evaluation of the intensity of the magnetic field, whereby the distance between the rotor position sensors 248 ', 248 "and the magnetic ring 400 is rather uncritical

The magnetic ring 500 preferably has a substantially cylindrical shape. As a magnetic material, for example hard ferrite compound 13 / 22p according to DIN 17 410 is suitable.

6 shows a plan view of a sensor magnet ring arrangement 69, which can be used in both internal and external rotors, and FIG. 7 shows a section through the sensor magnet ring arrangement 69, wherein the sensor magnet ring arrangement 69 is arranged on a shaft 87. The sensor magnet ring assembly 69 has the sensor magnet 82 with the four sensor poles 671, 672, 673 and 674, a metal ring 107 and a plastic ring 109, which connects the sensor poles 671 to 674 with the metal ring 107. The metal ring 107 is seated on the shaft 87 and is rotatably connected thereto. Preferably, brass is used for the metal ring 107. The plastic 109 is brought, for example via an injection molding process between the metal ring 107 and the sensor magnet 82 to connect them and at the same time to compensate for thermal expansion resulting stresses that could otherwise lead to a blasting of the sensor magnet 82.

The outer diameter of the sensor magnet 82 is designated 112, and it is for example 37 mm. The outer diameter is preferably in the range of 15 mm to 50 mm, more preferably in the range of 20 to 40 mm.

The inner diameter of the sensor magnet 82 or the outer diameter of the plastic ring 109 is designated by 110. The length 110 is for example 27 mm.

The inner diameter of the plastic ring 109 or the outer diameter of the metal ring 107 is designated by 108. The length 108 is for example 20 mm.

The diameter of the shaft 87 is denoted by 114, and it is for example 8 mm. Preferred values for the diameter 114 of the shaft are in the range 5 mm to 15 mm, but larger and smaller diameters are possible depending on the size of the motor.

The inner diameter of the metal ring 107 is preferably selected so that a good connection with the shaft 87 is formed. The use of an inner metal ring 107 is advantageous because the sensor magnet 82 can be manufactured in one or more standard sizes and the adaptation of the sensor magnet ring 69 to the shaft 87 via a favorable in the production change of the inner diameter 114 of the metal ring 107 can take place.

The width of the magnetic material 71 to 74 is denoted by 116, and the width 116 for a sensor magnet is, for example, 7 mm. The width for a pure sensor magnet, which therefore does not simultaneously serve as a rotor magnet, is preferred in the range of 3 mm to 20 mm, more preferably in the range of 5 mm to 15 mm, and particularly preferably in the range of 6 mm to 12 mm.

The sensor pole number SP is preferably SP = 2, 4, 6 or 8 and more preferably SP = 2 or 4.

In applications in which the sensor magnet ring 69 is arranged in a corrosive environment, the sensor magnet 82 may additionally be surrounded by a - preferably magnetically non-conductive - corrosion-resistant material. For example, it is possible to weld the sensor magnet in magnetically non-conductive stainless steel. With such a sensor magnet ring 69, for example, a wet rotor can be realized in which the shaft is surrounded by coolant.

8 shows an enlarged longitudinal section through an electronically commutated internal rotor motor 20, which is used to drive an external component (not shown), for example a fan wheel. The inner rotor motor 20 has a housing 22, which has a cylindrical housing part 24, an A-end shield 26 and a mounting flange 29 on the A side of the motor 20, and a B-end shield 66 and a housing cover 17 on the B side of the motor 20th having.

In the cylindrical housing part 24, the laminated core of an external stator 28 is arranged, the winding heads are indicated at 30 and 32. The stator 28 has an inner recess 34, in which a rotor 36 is arranged with a rotor magnet 38 on a rotor shaft 40, the drive end 42 and the inner end of the shaft is denoted by 44. The rotor magnet has n pole pairs, where n = 1, 2,. Such a motor can also be referred to as a permanently excited synchronous internal rotor machine.

In the right, open end of the cylindrical housing part 24, the B-end shield 66 is attached. This has a recess 68 for a roller bearing 72 with an outer ring 70 and an inner ring 74. The inner ring 74 is mounted on the shaft end 44. For this purpose, the rotor shaft 40 has a collar 78, with the right shoulder it rests against the left side of the inner ring 74. Against his right side lies Molding 80, which is pressed by the countersunk head 81 of a holding member 10 in the direction of the rotor shaft 40 and which is formed approximately annular. The molding 80 serves to fix the inner ring 74 on the rotor shaft 40.

For safe clamping of the outer ring 70 is a flat, annular member 90 which is secured by a plurality of screws 92, preferably three evenly distributed screws on its outer periphery on the B-end shield 66 and with its radially inner part 94 against the outer ring 70 is applied and this pressed to the left. (The recess 68 is slightly shorter than the outer ring 70.)

In the A-end shield 26, a seal 46 is provided for the rotor shaft 40 in the usual way. Further, there is a recess 48 in which a ring 50 is attached. The ring 50 surrounds an outer ring 55 of a rolling bearing 54. The inner ring 60 of the rolling bearing 54 is pressed onto the rotor shaft 40.

At the A-bearing plate 26, a circuit board 86 is fixed, which is arranged substantially parallel to the rotor shaft 40. On the underside of the printed circuit board 86 is at least one rotor position sensor 84, which serves to generate rotor position signals as a function of the rotational position of a magnetic ring 82. The magnet ring 82 is here arranged in a rotationally fixed manner on the rotor shaft 40 between the roller bearing 54 and the drive end 42 and preferably non-detachably connected to the shaft 40. The magnet ring 82 is preferably magnetized in such a way that it has a maximum of n pole pairs, where n is the number of pole pairs of the rotor magnet 38, and a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux profile results at its circumference 83.

According to FIG. 8, the magnetic ring 82 is arranged in the axial direction of the rotor shaft 40 substantially at the same height as the at least one rotor position sensor 84. The magnet ring 82 preferably has a distance from the rotor magnet 38, relative to the axial direction of the shaft 40, in order to prevent the rotor position sensor 84 from being influenced by the stray field of the rotor magnet 38 during the generation of the rotor position signals. Here, the magnetic ring 82 and the rotor magnet 38 are preferably arranged relative to each other, that each Pole transition of the magnetic ring 82 corresponds to a pole transition of the rotor magnet 38.

The arrangement of the or the rotor position sensors 84 is matched to the number and magnetization of the pole pairs of the magnetic ring 82 to ensure the uniqueness of the rotor position signals for controlling the energization of the stator 28. For example, when using two analog Hall sensors they are preferably arranged at a distance of 90 ° el. To each other. In the event that the magnetic ring 82 in this case has only one pair of poles, the Hall sensors must thus at a distance of 90 ° mech. be arranged to each other. In the case of a magnet ring 82 with two pole pairs, a distance of 45 ° mech., Etc. results for the Hall sensors. The distance between the rotor position sensor 84 and the magnetic ring 82 can, depending on the magnetization of the magnetic ring 82, increase over a relatively large air gap than 10 mm. The structure and the magnetization of the magnetic ring 82 is analogous to the embodiments described in FIGS. 4 to 7 and will therefore not be described further here.

The operation of the internal rotor motor 20 is analogous to the operation of the external rotor motor 200 of FIG. 2. The control of the commutation and the generation of rotor position signals and the determination of absolute values for the rotor position of the rotor 36 of the internal rotor motor 20 are also analogous to those of the external rotor motor 200 from Therefore, the operation of the internal rotor motor 20, the control of the commutation, as well as the generation of rotor position signals and the determination of absolute values for the internal rotor motor 20 will not be further described here.

9 shows a section through a preferred embodiment of the inner rotor motor 20 with a four-pole magnetic ring 82 along the line II-II in FIG. 8 on an enlarged scale. The number n of pole pairs of the magnetic ring 82 in FIG. 9 is n = 2. The four-pole magnetic ring 82 is, as described in Fig. 8, rotatably mounted on the rotor shaft 40 between the drive end 42 and the A-end shield 26. As clearly seen in FIG. 9, the top and bottom of the circuit board 86 are arranged substantially parallel to the axial orientation of the rotor shaft 40 and fixed to the A-end shield 26. Two rotor position sensors 84 ', 84 "are provided by way of example on the underside of the printed circuit board 86.

Hereinafter, exemplary values are given for individual components of the internal rotor motor 20 with the four-pole magnetic ring 82 according to a preferred embodiment:

Distance D (bottom of circuit board 86 to outside magnetic ring 82): 10 mm distance H (center sensor 84 'to center sensor 84 ", sensor type: SMD-HaII): 19 mm angle PHI (sensor 84' to sensor 84"): 90 ° el. or 45 ° mech.

Rotor shaft diameter 40: 6 mm

Diameter magnetic ring 82: 36.6 mm

Naturally, many modifications and modifications are possible within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

claims

An electric motor comprising: a stator (124); a rotor (38; 112) having a rotor shaft (40; 232) and a rotor magnet (38; 228) having n pole pairs; a magnet ring rotatably connected to the shaft (40; 232), which is magnetized such that it has a maximum of n pole pairs and results in a substantially sinusoidal magnetic flux path at its circumference; at least one rotor position sensor (84 ', 84 ", 248', 248") for generating a rotor position signal representing a magnetic flux property and suitable for determining an absolute value of the rotor position, the magnetic ring (82; 250) being at least partially interposed between the rotor shaft (232 ) and the at least one rotor position sensor (84 ', 84 "; 248', 248") is arranged.

2. Electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic ring (500) is magnetized polorientiert and in particular magnetically oriented laterally magnetized

3. Electric motor according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the magnetic ring (82) is diametrically magnetized.

4. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the magnetic ring (250), relative to the axial extent of the shaft (232) relative to the rotor magnet (228) is axially offset to an influence of the at least one rotor position sensor (84 '. , 84 ", 248 ', 248") to minimize the rotor position signal generated by the magnetic flux of the rotor magnet (228).

5. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the rotor shaft (232) has a free shaft end (235), and the magnetic ring (250), based on the axial extent of the shaft (40; 332) between the free shaft end (235) and the rotor magnet (228) is arranged.

6. Electric motor according to claim 5, which is arranged in a housing from which the free shaft end (42) protrudes, wherein the magnetic ring (82) between the free shaft end (42) and the housing is arranged.

7. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the magnetic ring and the rotor magnet are arranged relative to each other such that each pole transition of the magnetic ring corresponds to a pole transition of the rotor magnet.

8. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, in which two rotor position sensors (84 ', 84 "; 248', 248") are provided, which, relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, at a distance of about 90 ° el ,

9. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the magnetic ring has two pairs of poles and the electric motor has two rotor position sensors which, based on the axis of rotation of the shaft, at a distance of about 45 ° mech. are arranged to each other.

10. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one rotor position sensor (84 ', 84 ", 248', 248") is designed as an analog rotor position sensor.

11. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, comprising means (150) for determining the rotational position of the rotor (126), which device is designed as an absolute encoder for the rotational position of the rotor and serves, at any time the absolute value of the rotor position from the to determine at least one rotor position signal.

12. Electric motor according to claim 11, which comprises a microprocessor (100), which forms at least part of the means (150) for determining the absolute value of the rotational position of the rotor (126).

13. Electric motor, which has

A stator (244) with a bearing tube (238), which at least in one

Part of a magnetically transparent material is formed; a rotor (222) having a rotor shaft (232) at least partially disposed in the bearing tube (238); a magnetic ring (250) which rotatably on the shaft (232) and at least partially within the magnetically transparent portion of the

Storage tube (238) is arranged; at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") for generating a

Rotor position signal as a function of the rotational position of the magnet ring

(250), which at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") outside the bearing tube (238) is arranged.

14. Electric motor according to claim 13, wherein the at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") and the magnetic ring (250), based on the axial extent of the rotor shaft (234), are arranged approximately at the same axial height.

15. Electric motor according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the magnetic ring (250) between the rotor shaft (234) and the at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") is arranged.

16. Electric motor according to one of claims 13 to 15, wherein the rotor (222) having a stator (244) cooperating rotor magnet (228) which is arranged outside of the bearing tube (238).

17. Electric motor according to claim 16, in which the rotor magnet (228) has n pole pairs, where n = 1, 2,..., And the magnetic ring (250) is magnetized such that it has a maximum of n pole pairs and is magnetized so that at its periphery (83) results in a substantially sinusoidal course of the magnetic flux.

18. Electric motor according to claim 17, wherein the magnetic ring (250) and the rotor magnet (228) are arranged relative to each other such that each pole transition of the magnetic ring (250) corresponds to a pole transition of the rotor magnet (228).

19. Electric motor according to claim 17 or 18, wherein two rotor position sensors (248 ¹ 248 ") are provided, which, relative to the axis of rotation of the magnetic ring, at a distance of about 90 ° el. Are arranged to each other.

20. Electric motor according to claim 17 or 18, wherein the magnetic ring (250) has two pairs of poles, and two rotor position sensors (248 ', 248 ") are provided, which are arranged at a distance of about 45 ° mech. Relative to each other.

21. Electric motor according to one of claims 16 to 20, wherein the at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") is designed as an analog sensor.

22. Electric motor according to one of claims 16 to 21, wherein the magnetic ring (250), relative to the axial extent of the shaft, relative to the rotor magnet (228) is axially offset in order to influence the rotor position signal by the magnetic flux of the rotor magnet (228 ) to minimize.

23. Electric motor according to one of claims 16 to 22, which has a housing, wherein the magnetic ring (250) is arranged in a first region of the housing, with the stator (244) cooperating rotor magnet (228) in a second region of the housing is arranged and between the first and second area a circuit board (246) for the engine electronics (320 ', 320 ", 320'") is provided.

24. Electric motor according to claim 23, wherein the at least one rotor position sensor (248 ', 248 ") on the circuit board (246) is arranged.

25. Electric motor according to one of claims 13 to 24, wherein the magnetic ring (500) is magnetized pole-oriented.

26. Electric motor according to one of claims 13 to 25, wherein the magnetic ring (82) and the rotor shaft (87) are interconnected.

27. Electric motor according to one of claims 13 to 26, which comprises means (150) for determining the rotor position, which is designed as an absolute encoder for the rotor position and serves to determine from the at least one rotor position signal, the absolute value of the rotor position.

28. Electric motor according to claim 27, which has a microprocessor (100) which forms at least part of the means (150) for determining the absolute value of the rotor position.

29. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein between the shaft (87) and the magnetic ring (82) an elastic element (109) is arranged to allow changes in shape caused by temperature changes.

30. Electric motor according to claim 29, wherein between the elastic region (109) and the shaft (87) a metal ring (107) is arranged, in particular a ring of a non-magnetic material.

31. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the width (116) of the magnetic ring (82) is in the range of about 3 mm to about 20 mm.

32. The electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the outer diameter (112) of the magnetic ring (82) in the range of about 15 mm to about 50 mm.

33. Electric motor according to one of the preceding claims, in which a printed circuit board (86; 246) is provided at a distance from the magnetic ring (69; 82; 250) serving for motor control, on which two analog sensors (84) are separated from one another at an angular distance (PHI) ', 84 ", 248', 248") are provided for the sinusoidal magnetic flux density generated by the magnetic ring (69; 82; 250) as it rotates on the printed circuit board (86; 246).

The electric motor of claim 33, wherein the rotor has an axis of rotation, and the two analog sensors (84 ', 84 "; 248', 248") have substantially the same distance from that axis of rotation.

An electric motor according to claim 33 or 34, wherein said analog sensors (84 ", 84", 248 ', 248 ") are disposed on said circuit board (86; 246) in substantially the same plane.

36. Electric motor according to one of claims 33 to 35, wherein the two sensors (84 ', 84 ", 248', 248") is associated with a device (150) which is adapted to the instantaneous from the output signals of these two sensors absolute angular position of the electric motor to calculate.

37. Electric motor according to one of claims 33 to 36, which for the storage of the motor shaft (232) has a bearing tube (238), wherein the motor control serving for magnetic ring (250) within said bearing tube (238) on the motor shaft (232) is arranged , and the two said magnetic ring (250) associated analog galvanomagnetic sensors (248 ', 248 ") outside of this bearing tube (238) are arranged, and at least the region of the bearing tube (238) which extends between the magnetic ring (250) and the sensors (248 ', 248 ") is magnetically transparent.